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On a quiet morning in the suburbs of Oslo, Norway, a man who was suspected of concealing narcotics in his mouth was subjected to a stop and search by Norwegian civil police. During the search, the police handcuffed and held down the man on a public street and used ba...

[dropcap]F[/dropcap]oreign aid money and manpower are being stretched to capacity as relief organisations scramble to provide vital assistance to the millions injured and displaced by the catastrophic 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley last...

[dropcap]W[/dropcap]e have moved a long way from the 1940 and 50’s where nationalism and patriotism drove respect for authority and an almost slavish heed in much of society for those in power and those deemed to have greater knowledge. Thankfully today, such a...

[dropcap]A[/dropcap] month on from Tropical Cyclone Pam’s decimation of the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu, tens of thousands of people still face dire food and water shortages, and thousands remain homeless as they wait for sufficient aid to reach them. Vanuatu is ...

[dropcap]G[/dropcap]oogle presented a mathematics heavy paper in February that studied a new way of ordering searches to improve their accuracy via an endogenous method that favours facts and reflects this in its search order. The paper is titled Knowledge Based Trus...

[dropcap]G[/dropcap]uards in Nauru turned off the water supply in bathrooms, then pressured women to expose their naked bodies in exchange for shower time, according to one female asylum seeker. Along with other disturbing details, these reports came to light after t...